diff --git a/soup-discovery/scripts/find-staged-bundle.sh b/soup-discovery/scripts/find-staged-bundle.sh
index 8f31cc5..688f6e2 100644
--- a/soup-discovery/scripts/find-staged-bundle.sh
+++ b/soup-discovery/scripts/find-staged-bundle.sh
@@ -3,12 +3,10 @@
 #
 # track-lifecycle.py needs something to compare the running version against, or every finding
 # reads as `open` and the state this whole lifecycle exists for -- a fix that is merged and
-# waiting to ship -- cannot be told apart from nobody having looked. Measured on mindnet:
-# 125 findings in the deployed v1.0.15 are gone in v1.1.0-qa2, four of them Track 1.
+# waiting to ship -- cannot be told apart from nobody having looked.
 #
-# A QA bundle rather than a scan of main, because it already exists and already covers the
-# images. A scan of main can only read the manifests, and on mindnet those hold 34 of 1756
-# findings -- the rest are OS packages inside the images we build.
+# A QA bundle rather than a scan of main: it already exists, and it covers the images. A scan of
+# main reads the manifests only, and most findings sit in OS packages inside the images we build.
 #
 # Younger than the deployed release, not merely the newest QA tag: an older QA bundle predates
 # the deployment and every finding fixed since would read as still open, or worse, findings the
diff --git a/soup-discovery/scripts/merge-assessment.sh b/soup-discovery/scripts/merge-assessment.sh
index a2776f7..10e7708 100755
--- a/soup-discovery/scripts/merge-assessment.sh
+++ b/soup-discovery/scripts/merge-assessment.sh
@@ -175,8 +175,7 @@ jq --slurpfile recs "$TMP/records.json" '
                                            and .value == "direct")] | length) > 0)
         # Nothing outside was chosen: code from this repository, a package the toolchain
         # delivers, an image this build produces. mark-scope.py and normalize-bom.sh set the
-        # reason. Seven of the eight names on the first GDG run were of this kind, and they
-        # buried the one that was not.
+        # reason.
         | select(([.properties[]? | select(.name == "quickbird:soup:exempt")] | length) == 0)
         | . as $c
         | select(([ $records[] | select(name_matches(.; $c)) ] | length) == 0)